Saturday Crossword — January 31, 2004 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 64 clues). Published 1/31/2004. By Byron Walden.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Strategic Iraqi port just across the Kuwaiti border (7)
- UMMQASR
- 8 Across: Old green coats? (7)
- PATINAS
- 15 Across: Paste (7)
- TROUNCE
- 16 Across: Home to Dyess A.F.B. (7)
- ABILENE
- 17 Across: Before (7)
- AHEADOF
- 18 Across: Lagged (7)
- RANLATE
- 19 Across: Fits (9)
- HYSTERIAS
- 21 Across: Like articles and blood (5)
- TYPED
- 22 Across: Steady devotion (9)
- ADHERENCE
- 23 Across: 1960's chess master (3)
- TAL
- 24 Across: Starts to resemble (5)
- NEARS
- 25 Across: Fouls up (4)
- ERRS
- 27 Across: Map point (4)
- SITE
- 28 Across: Like ink, in France (5)
- NOIRE
- 30 Across: Where we live (6)
- ABODES
- 32 Across: Scholars (7)
- SAVANTS
- 35 Across: Some bargains (7)
- TWOFERS
- 36 Across: Disinclined (6)
- AVERSE
- 37 Across: Decalogue word (5)
- SHALT
- 38 Across: Exact (4)
- VERY
- 39 Across: Still (4)
- MUTE
- 41 Across: Go from here to there (5)
- SEGUE
- 45 Across: Fat letters (3)
- EMS
- 46 Across: PET scan particles (9)
- POSITRONS
- 48 Across: Northern forests (5)
- TAIGA
- 51 Across: Loses focus (9)
- SPACESOUT
- 52 Across: When coins came into general use (7)
- IRONAGE
- 54 Across: Get the last bit of suds out (7)
- RERINSE
- 55 Across: Tower of faith (7)
- MINARET
- 56 Across: Less subdued (7)
- GAUDIER
- 57 Across: Parade times (7)
- EASTERS
- 58 Across: Disburses (7)
- EXPENDS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Jazz enthusiast? (6)
- UTAHAN
- 2 Down: Personification of humanity's dark side (6)
- MRHYDE
- 3 Down: Title TV character played by Brandy Norwood (6)
- MOESHA
- 4 Down: Pertaining to the present period in earth history (10)
- QUATERNARY
- 5 Down: "Father Knows Best" family (9)
- ANDERSONS
- 6 Down: Harshly criticize (5)
- SCORE
- 7 Down: Employees in the sugar industry (8)
- REFINERS
- 8 Down: Grammarian, at times (6)
- PARSER
- 9 Down: Org. that the Indiana Pacers once belonged to (3)
- ABA
- 10 Down: Moonroof feature (4)
- TINT
- 11 Down: Not well (4)
- ILLY
- 12 Down: First or third quarter phenomenon (8)
- NEAPTIDE
- 13 Down: Animal with no teeth (8)
- ANTEATER
- 14 Down: Like some melons (8)
- SEEDLESS
- 20 Down: Decent plot (4)
- ACRE
- 26 Down: "I thought I ___ ..." (4)
- SAWA
- 27 Down: What a tough guy may not show much (10)
- SOFTERSIDE
- 29 Down: Pair (4)
- ITEM
- 31 Down: Support, redundantly (9)
- BOLSTERUP
- 32 Down: Do a hurry-up job (8)
- SAVETIME
- 33 Down: Common wedding song (8)
- AVEMARIA
- 34 Down: Competing narratives (8)
- VERSIONS
- 35 Down: Sad Sack's tormentor, in comics (8)
- THESARGE
- 37 Down: Cry from a tickled person (4)
- STOP
- 40 Down: Bouts of gastritis (6)
- UPSETS
- 42 Down: "Don't stay out here" (6)
- GOONIN
- 43 Down: Available (6)
- UNUSED
- 44 Down: Ethyl acetate and others (6)
- ESTERS
- 47 Down: Mountaineering aid (5)
- ICEAX
- 49 Down: Small distraction (4)
- GNAT
- 50 Down: Europe's Gorge of the ___ (4)
- AARE
- 53 Down: E.U. language (3)
- GER
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